Death threats and disease drive more Venezuelans to flee
UNHCR calls on states to allow refugees and migrants from Venezuela to access safety, as security and humanitarian situation worsens in their country. By Paola Sarta in Bogota, Colombia José and Yurmi hurriedly gathered up their seven-month-old baby, packed some...
Majority fleeing Venezuela in need of refugee protection
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Liz Throssell –to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Given the worsening political, economic, human rights and humanitarian situation in...
Registration gives many Rohingya refugees identification for the first time
More than 270,000 stateless refugees from Myanmar provided with identity cards in an ongoing registration drive. By Alex St-Denis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Nasima Aktar is among hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya – many of whom have spent a lifetime without...
UNHCR saddened by civilian casualties in Sana’a, Yemen
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened at reports of deaths and injuries of...
A rainbow of home: Vancouver volunteers give new home to LGBTI refugees
A dedicated group of volunteers and activists committed to LGBTI refugees, provide Andre with a new home in a welcoming community. Vancouver, Canada Rainbow Refugee volunteers in Vancouver organize to help bring Andre, a gay refugee living in a camp in East Africa,...
IDAHOT: UNHCR launching consultations on LGBTI refugees’ rights
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has launched this week a series of consultations to identify ways of ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) refugees are better protected against harm, and are able to seek justice and support when they...
Photo exhibit turns lens on LGBTQI refugees in Canada
“Am I Wrong to Love?” shares powerful experiences of individuals forced to flee By Lauren La Rose in Toronto, Canada Many years before they met by chance on social media and fell in love, Nouran Hussein and Miral Mokhtar were bonded by a common truth about who they...
Syrian family embrace their homing instinct
Displaced inside their country since 2012, a young family return home to find their old neighbourhood in ruins. Now they are striving to put their lives back together. By Christopher Reardon in Homs, Syria From the rooftop above his family’s flat, a brown-eyed boy...